Letter from Joanna Livingston Van Wyck to Philip Gilbert Van Wyck
Entry/Object ID
HHV 002.251
Description
Letter from Joanna Livingston Van Wyck to Philip Gilbert Van Wyck
Subject
family news, "the Society," life at Grove Hill
Subject Person/Organization
Joanna Livingston Van Wyck, Philip Gilbert Van Wyck
Subject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
Croton, New York
Context
June 23, 1842
Collection
Van Cortlandt Manuscript Collection
Transcription
Transcription
My Dear Father
I received your letter this / afternoon and was happy to hear your eye / was doing well, I hope your mouth will / also soon be well. _ Mamas eye still / continues inflamed but I think it is / better than when I last wrote, she / rode out yesterday and the day before / to day has been rainy so she could not / go. __ We have got the cow and she / answers very well. _ Eliza have a / letter from Pierre to day he was very / well and had just received your / letter and the money for which he / was very much obliged. __
We had a large meeting of the Society / yesterday at Mrs [Haver’s?], besides the / usual ladies, Mrs Van Cortlandt /
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Mifs Beck and Mrs William Henry were / there. Tell Jim if he would come up here / perhaps the fair Hellen might do. / something to console him. She inquires / very particular about him The Society / meets at Croton at the Manor house one / Tuesday . The Fair is to be the 20th July / Mr [Haver/Havel?] has some views which he took at / the Lake the other day nearly finished / his picture of the village is quite [done?] / and looks very well it is the [same?] of the / one at the Academy
The water was let in the aqueduct to day / as far as Tarrytown it took five hours / to get here, Mr Jervis, Davidson, and / and some others came down in it in a boat / Mama sends you and the [Madeira?Academie?] some / [Flowers?], and with the rest of the famly / joins me in love
Most affectionately
Your Daughter
Joanna
Grove Hill June 23rs - 42
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Philip G. Van Wyck Esq’r
80 White Street
New York
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Joanna Van Wyck
June 23 1842
